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“Saturday Night Live” writer Leslie Jones landed in hot water after performing a Weekend Update segment where she joked she’d be the “number one slave…

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As the world mobilizes to safely bring home 276 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Nigeria on April 14, the subject…

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Maybe Jim DeMint has never heard of the American Civil War. DeMint, the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation and former Republican senator from South Carolina, was a…

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Jeff Johnson and Raynard Jackson, guests on the “NewsOne Now” panel, joined Roland Martin Monday to discuss diversity at the 2014 Oscars and the future…

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It’s the 150th anniversary of the completion of the U.S. Capitol building dome, but what is hardly talked about is the fact that slaves helped…

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For the millionth time, racist old people in positions of power: If you don’t want your bigotry to be made in to big headlines all…

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The topic of slavery has become quite the buzzword of late, considering the releases of high-profile Hollywood dramas such as “Django Unchained” and “12 Years…

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Dr. Benjamin Carson has been making news headlines lately, stepping into the world of politics. The acclaimed neurosurgeon was recently hired by Fox News, and last Friday compared Obamacare to slavery. He told the audience at the Voter Values Summit, “Obamacare is the worst thing to happen to America since slavery, because it is making […]

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  A Pakistani designer is finding herself in as much immediate trouble as that of someone who knocks down a hornets nest with a big stick…but doesn’t even attempt to run away. And the reason why is beyond absurd. According to The Huffington Post, Aamna Aqeel, thought it would be a good idea to do an editorial photo […]

Welcome to post-slavery America, Mississippi! It only took 148 years, but better late than never, right? The state officially became the last to ratify the 13th amendment of the United States, which abolished slavery. Their state government voted unanimously, in 1995, to ratify the amendment. However, due to a clerical error, the state never officially […]

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A gun advocate stirred up the pot, last week on TV, saying that if blacks were given the “right to keep and bear arms” since the country’s inception, “perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history.” Larry Ward, chairman of Gun Appreciation Day (Jan 19), told CNN in a panel discussion, “The […]

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A letter from a former slave, Jourdan Anderson to the man who owned him, Colonel P.H. Anderson has drawn a lot of attention  in 1965 was posted on several sites and even became the top story at Yahoo News. In the letter Jourdan Anderson offers a smart retort to P.H. Anderson’s request that he come […]